Import gaming -- Magazines

Abstract GameFan (originally titled Diehard GameFan or Diehard Game Fan through October 1995) was a monthly publication that billed itself as a "next generation video game magazine" and, later, as "the last true enthusiast magazine." Although the magazine covered a wide variety of games, they focused on specialty topics for a video game enthusiast audience, such as import games and role-playing games. GameFan was founded by...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The library has a complete physical collection of the main run of GameFan. Due to publication difficulties, only five issues of Volume 6 were actually produced, although they retain issue numbering based on the month they were published. Volume 7, Issue 2 was also not produced.

The collection also includes several special issues of GameFan; the only print issue of the unofficial GameFan spin-off magazine GameGO!; and issues of the relaunched GameFan from 2010.

Abstract Hardcore Gamer was a magazine by DoubleJump Publishing, founded by alumni of GameFan magazine, that covered current and retro games. Similar to GameFan, Hardcore Gamer had a special focus on import gaming and niche subgenres that received less coverage in mainstream publications, like Japanese role-playing games.The magazine ran for three and a half years on a semi-regular schedule until 2009, when publisher Tim Lindquist sold the rights to Hardcore Gamer on eBay to an unknown...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection currently includes several dozen video game and software retailer catalogs. This includes both physical and mail-order retailers. Catalogs sent directly by game publishers are separately (see "Video game publisher product catalogs").